Day: 5 November 2021

Promoting Linguistically Sensitive Teaching with Subject Teachers in a Secondary School: Exploring Functions of Students’ Language Repertoires in Classroom Learning

The Flemish Community in Belgium is a region where Dutch is the only official language of instruction in the school curriculum. In recent years, we have made some progress in making preschool and primary school teachers more linguistically aware and sensitive. However, as far as teachers in secondary schools are concerned, we are still at the beginning.